Example sentences of "but [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paint surface grew a little cracked and mouldy , but nothing else seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | Their lascannon ball turrets swivelled alertly but nothing else seemed to be in the vicinity . |
| 3 | Hurt it might , but nothing else happened . |
| 4 | He watched the door for a bit , but nothing more happened . |
| 5 | I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened . |
| 6 | There was talk of Minton in addition illustrating a book for Elek on South London but nothing ever came of this . |
| 7 | We made lots of plans , but nothing ever came of them . |
| 8 | Shortly after this Marty Stone , our second engineer , and I re-enacted the whole thing for the benefit of two Daily Mirror journalists who were supposed to be writing an article about the work of the Cutter Service , but nothing ever came of this . |
| 9 | Robin and Jenny were the ones who had adventures , fell walking or sailing on the lake , always coming home with hair-raising stories ; but nothing ever happened to Ruth . |
| 10 | ‘ But nothing ever happened , ’ said Stevie . |
| 11 | Day after day Charles sat waiting for something to happen , but nothing ever did . |
| 12 | But nothing really happened . |
| 13 | Judge Hart said Munn confessed all when interviewed by police but no-one else had been charged with the robbery . |
| 14 | It was a game in the bower , for the cup would be returned empty after a while , but no-one ever saw where the milk went . |
| 15 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 16 | The band was tight , but everyone else had seemed to be making it up as they went along . |
| 17 | John , with his weight , could get up momentum ( and courage ) enough to go hurtling and somersaulting off the end ; but everyone else came to a halt before the end , despite desperate jerks , which added no more than inches to the length of their slide . |
| 18 | Ellen was still awake , talking in the stateroom with Rickie , but everyone else seemed asleep . |
| 19 | Piggy felt that everybody else had held onto their civilised upbringing like himself and he was always very surprised when nobody tried to steal the conch , right to speak , from him , but everyone else knew that democracy and civilisation on the island had ended , and the conch had lost all of its power and worth . |
| 20 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 21 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 22 | But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze . |
| 23 | I did , but I slowly shook my head . |
| 24 | At first I had the strings about an inch off the fingerboard , but I slowly started filing down the nut until I ended up with a lower action . |
| 25 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 26 | At first the beeves were indistinct masses , cold and blurry , but I eventually got a satisfactory materialisation . |
| 27 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 28 | But I eventually reached the motorway and headed north . |
| 29 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 30 | But I mostly did n't know which fragments were recent and which were fossil . |